Six defects were discovered to be connected to cleft lip only, and three were associated with cleft palate only; those included ear canal atresia, club foot and anencephaly, which had the strongest association with all types of clefts.

EGYPT'S famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, may have walked with a cane and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

Having worked as a Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon in Dubai for the past two years, Sinclair has seen many children with problems that needed fixing, such as club foot, crooked legs and other deformities - either congenital or from accidents.

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